Florida wants you to kill as many of the invasive Burmese pythons as you can during the 10-days contest in July. But you can't shoot them.

The Florida Python Challenge was created by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to help protect the Everglades and its native animals by removing the invasive reptiles.

A Florida woman has been dubbed the 'new queen of the Everglades' after winning the 2025 Florida Python Challenge's grand prize for removing an impressive 60 invasive snakes from the Everglades.

The winner of the $10,000 ultimate grand prize this year was Taylor Stanberry, who removed a whopping 60 pythons.

A Florida woman has emerged as the ultimate grand prize winner of a python-removal challenge, earning $10,000 after removing ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge has wrapped up for the season. The challenge began on July 10 and ended on Sunday, July 20. The challenge is held yearly in the Everglades to combat the growing ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is underway and concludes Aug. 18. Professional python trapper Brandon Rahe writes that native species, and indeed the entire Everglades ecosystem, would probabl… ...

Where is the 2025 Florida Python Challenge? Participants will remove pythons from seven commission-managed lands in South Florida.

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who ...

Can a gun be used to kill a python in the Florida Python Challenge? Here are the rules. This August, you could win $10,000 for killing pythons, but you can't use a firearm. Here's why.

MIAMI - Are you up for the challenge of nabbing some of the biggest snakes in the Everglades? The 2023 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. Participants this year will have the chance to win ...